The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . /ECTION. FIG. 325. OF THROUGH CLOSET. haust should be near the door. The de-sirability of ventilating the clothes cup-boards as well as the room led the writerto adopt the method of placing the roomvent in the ceiling of the cupboard, cut-ting the door thereto so as to leave anopen space below, setting the cupboardshelf away from the wall, and in thisway allowing a free circulation of the
The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . /ECTION. FIG. 325. OF THROUGH CLOSET. haust should be near the door. The de-sirability of ventilating the clothes cup-boards as well as the room led the writerto adopt the method of placing the roomvent in the ceiling of the cupboard, cut-ting the door thereto so as to leave anopen space below, setting the cupboardshelf away from the wall, and in thisway allowing a free circulation of the room and cui)Loard. ( Iijr325.) ^ The natural tepee form of ventila-tion is in a number of —that is, providing forheat units on the outer walls, either ra-diators or coils; making the side wallslow, about seven feet, and sloping the ceiling at least thirty degrees to a moni-tor vent. The result is ideal heatingand ventilation, but the difficulty of usingthis method in large units ii the neces-sary waste space involved in the slopingceiling and the monitor, although thishas been carried out in the ChildrensHospital in Boston, in the State Hos-p
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